Editing Windows 2000 (section)

=== Languages and locales ===
{{Main|Multilingual User Interface}}

Windows 2000 introduced the [[Multilingual User Interface]] (MUI).<ref name="Windows2000MUI" /> Besides [[English language|English]], Windows 2000 incorporates support for [[Arabic language|Arabic]], [[Armenian language|Armenian]], [[Baltic languages|Baltic]], Central European, [[Cyrillic]], [[Georgian language|Georgian]], [[Greek language|Greek]], [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], [[Indic scripts|Indic]], [[Japanese language|Japanese]], [[Korean language|Korean]], [[simplified Chinese characters|simplified Chinese]], [[Thai language|Thai]], [[traditional Chinese characters|traditional Chinese]], [[Turkic languages|Turkic]], [[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]] and Western European languages.<ref name="SupportedLanguages">{{Cite web |title=List of languages supported in Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 |url=https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/292246/list-of-languages-supported-in-windows-2000,-windows-xp,-and-windows-server-2003 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170302093044/https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/292246/list-of-languages-supported-in-windows-2000,-windows-xp,-and-windows-server-2003 |archive-date=March 2, 2017 |access-date=February 17, 2017 |website=Support |publisher=[[Microsoft]]}}</ref> It also has support for many different locales.<ref name="LocaleIDs" />

Since Windows 2000, English versions of Windows (NT) can support display and input right-to-left languages (such as Arabic) and [[CJKV]] languages, but related files needed to be installed in [[Control Panel (Windows)|Control Panel]].<ref> {{Cite web |title=Multilanguage Support in Windows 2000 Professional |url=https://www.itprotoday.com/it-infrastructure/multilanguage-support-in-windows-2000-professional |access-date=2025-04-26 |website=www.itprotoday.com |language=en}}</ref>